Ubuntu / Raspian / Rapsberry Pi Connection Problems

Posted September 4, 2014. Last modified September 5, 2014 by Jason Ernst

So today I was messing around with a Raspberry Pi using Raspian. It turns out if you have an ethernet connection without Internet and a Wi-Fi connection with Internet, the Pi / Raspian is too dumb to figure out that it should use the Wi-Fi connection for things like dns lookups and web traffic. Slightly annoying. I’m sure there’s a way to fix this – but time is not on my side today.

Update: It turns out it’s more of a widespread linux problem. This morning on Ubuntu I tried connecting one Wi-Fi adapter to an AP that was not connected to the Internet and a second one that was. It seemed that again the traffic tried to take the path through the first adapter.